Best Games of 2015
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainThe best-playing stealth sandbox ever shipped, wrapped around a story that visibly runs out of road.Read the review
The Witcher 3: Wild HuntThe open-world RPG every open-world RPG since has been measured against, and most of them lose.
BloodborneGothic horror that mutates into cosmic horror mid-game, powered by the most aggressive combat in the Souls line.
Fallout 4The best-feeling Fallout to play and the shallowest one to talk to.
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake CollectionThree PlayStation 3 games at sixty frames, and the gap between the first and the second has never been this visible.
Yakuza 0A bubble era crime tragedy that will pause its own funeral to make you manage a cabaret club, and both halves work.
Batman: Arkham KnightRocksteady's most beautiful Gotham, handed over to a tank and shipped on PC in a state that had to be pulled from sale.
Rocket LeagueCars playing football, and the only competitive game of its decade whose skill ceiling nobody has found yet.
Super Mario MakerNintendo handed over the level editor it had guarded for thirty years, and players built things it never would.
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIWall running, specialists and the best zombies mode the series ever built, wrapped around a campaign nobody can summarize.